false <![CDATA[Tender Morsels]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235445952m/2662169.jpg 2662169 12 2687395 book 14 10 2008 Tender Morsels total:665|5:182|4:197|3:142|2:72|1:72| 665 2340 1814 315 5 15 false false Thu Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 05:57:39 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 08:18:44 -0700 2008 Snow-White and Rose-Red. Like all fairy tales, it left much unexplained. Too much. Well, Margo Lanagan took those bones and added muscle and guts, bracing the loose joints of the plot with her characters' emotions, motivations, and histories. ...more...]]> 3 7 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 14:18:30 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 12:25:32 -0800 2009 Tender Morsels drew me in, but the middle kind of lost me (it seemed a little tedious to me).

Lately, I've been hearing "If you don't like a book, put it down. There are too many other good books out there you could be reading."

But I'm not very good at that...more...]]> 5 4 false false Thu Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 08:20:50 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 04:20:49 -0700 2008 finished this one this morning and I have been thinking about it
nonstop. This is a full length novel, a fantasy, and, unlike her short
stories, uses a fairly conventional narrative style so it may be more
accessible for many...more...]]> 5 4 false false Mon Sep 08 02:29:20 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 02:42:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 6 false false Thu Mar 05 19:23:27 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 19:39:39 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 19:23:27 -0800 2009
The book starts out with an accurate and well-describe...more...]]> 1 5 false false Mon Jan 05 16:14:09 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 16:21:48 -0800 2009 1 4 false false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jan 22 13:17:50 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 21 11:21:45 -0700 2009 Cross-posted from my blog E.M.Reads.

After 200 pages of Tender Morsels I just can't continue. I mean I'm half way there and I just can't plow through. I'm searching for the plausible chain of events that binds the plot. I understand that this is fantasy and plausibility isn't exactly ...more...]]> 5 5 false false Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 27 07:57:36 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 13 17:47:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 4 false false Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 00:06:30 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 03 15:14:17 -0800 2009 http://www.amazon.com/Tender-Morsels-Mar...

and pasted here,
“born to make a real life however it cracks your heart”
Margo Lanagan’s retelling of the fairy tale, Snow White, Rose Red is a novel that succeeds in the way that the most compel...more...]]> 1 3 false false Sun Dec 14 20:15:49 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 22:11:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 6 false false Thu Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 11:20:30 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 06:32:54 -0800 2008
After I wrote this review, I tried to continue but just couldn't. I didn't fini...more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Aug 21 10:01:37 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 10:04:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Dec 02 13:04:29 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 18:14:23 -0800 2008
It's not necessarily for the faint-hearted... but the faint-hearted could probably learn a lot from readin...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Aug 18 16:41:51 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 19 19:35:38 -0800 2009 4 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 20:50:41 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 08:51:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 20:56:14 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 20:56:35 -0800 2009
Review: This Printz Honor Book is not for the squeamish. I didn’t read ...more...]]> 1 3 false false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 19:27:48 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 15:07:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 3 false false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jan 20 03:14:18 -0800 2009 Tue May 19 20:03:54 -0700 2009
As the novel expanded to encompass more lives, I found ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 10:12:38 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 11:52:18 -0800 2008 Tender Morsels is perhaps the best young adult novel of 2008. I will not be surprised if it wins the Printz award or at least receives an honor.

Liga is a fifteen year old girl who is ...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 14:21:59 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 21:20:22 -0800 2008 Tender Morsels feels exactly like this kind of reinvention: nothing comes easily, or proceeds in the accepted and ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2662169